Rt. Rocks.

Here’s a typical day for me. I get up. I log into my home
RT queue to see if there’s any personal stuff I need to
do today - bills to pay, stuff I need to take to work, etc.
It’s OK, because I can get at all the details from work
anyway, thanks to my DSL. Head into work. Log into my
work’s RT system, look at the things I need to do today,
deal with tickets coming in from users, and so on.

Get home. Log into CPAN’s RT system, handle any bugs in
my modules, and fire off responses to people lodging
bug requests. All the patches are there in RT, so I can
just copy and paste them into patch and I’ve got a release.
Check that into Perforce and we’re good to go. I don’t need
to make much of a Changes file, since I can just point
everyone at the tickets.

Log into perl.org’s RT system and check out the status
of Parrot. Ideally, I’ll have all the outstanding Parrot
patches in there too.

Next, I log back into my own RT system and check the Perl
queue, which has all the neato-keen Perl things I’ve thought
of and not got around to implementing. Stare at them. Fail
to get around to implementing them. Play quake and/or Go
instead.

RT: It doesn’t make you more productive, but it certainly
makes you more organized.